Rudolf Kaltenbach

Rudolf Kaltenbach ( born May 12, 1842 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † November 21, 1892 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German gynecologist.

Life

Kaltenbach was the son of a wine merchant Johann Gustav Kaltenbach (1807-1846) and his wife Maria Walburga Balbine Sautier (1818-1874) was born in Freiburg. He took there to study medicine, which he continued at the universities of Berlin and Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1865 and then worked until 1867 when Johann Dumreicher ( 1815-1880 ) in Vienna. In 1866 Rudolf Kaltenbach in part on the Austrian side at the German war. From 1867 to 1873 he was employed as an assistant to Alfred Hegar ( 1830-1914 ) in Freiburg, where he habilitated in 1868. In 1870 he took part in the Franco-German War, during which he became seriously ill with typhoid fever. In 1873 he was appointed associate professor in 1883 followed Kaltenbach a chair at the University of Giessen, where he became head of the maternity ward and Women's Hospital as a full professor of obstetrics and gynecology. In Giessen, Rudolf Kaltenbach obtained an approval for a new hospital building at Seltersberg. 1887 went to the gynecologist to Halle, where he became the successor of Robert Olshausen ( 1835-1915 ). After Franz von Winckel, he was the second president of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics and led their conference in 1888 in Halle ( Saale). In 1890 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Work

Kaltenbach Kaltenbach introduced the scheme, a graphical tool for the acquisition of various parameters of menstrual bleeding. He set the schema before on the fourth Congress of the German Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 1891 in Bonn.

Writings (selection )

• Alfred Hegar, Rudolf Kaltenbach: Operative Gynecology. In 1874.
• Rudolf Kaltenbach: Textbook of Obstetrics. Stuttgart 1893.
• Rudolf Kaltenbach: About expedients of gynecological teaching. Z Geburtsh Gynäkol 21 (1891 ), 228-296